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Lock Haven U
ty's student newspapeiyflff* 21 years.
Good
Luck to
students
registering
Saturday!
Volume 46, Number 9
Friday, November 5,1993
12 pages
Dean accused of discrimination
The
ten
second
Eagle Eye
news
A President's open meeting will be held on November 16 at 1 p.m. in the Sloan Fine Arts Building.
Correction in workshop date
Maria Sweet's "Test- Taking" workshop has been moved from Nov. 11 to Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in Robinson 409.
5CC establishes pact
At the SCC meeting last night they discussed the new copier policy and es¬ tablished a pact with a school in Scotland (see story page 2).
features
Plays capture spirit of Halloween
In the spirit of Hal loween, the Countdown Theatre set the stage for two one-act plays. Eulogy and Dracula (see story page 6).
Stutlents explore directing talents
Student directors use their, time and talent to en¬ tertain the University and community (see story page 5).
index
Editoriai.^..^..p. 8 Features^».....pp. 5-7 Ciassificd»tM..p. 4 Sports.......t..t..pp. 9-12
by Jennifer Baer
Eagle Eye News Editor_
A University professor has ac¬ cused the dean of the college of arts and sciences of discrimination in her treatment of Black African pro¬ fessors.
In a document written by Dr. Harriet Masembe, a Black African associate professor in the English, Journalism, and Philosophy De¬ partment, Dr. Janet Gross is accused by the professor of "favoritism, ra¬ cism, and inconsistency."
When contacted by this reporter on Oct. 19 and again on Thursday, Gross did not wish to comment on Masembe's accusations against her.
In spite of these allegations, in her document, Masembe also points out that she has appreciated Gross for the following reasons: the "val¬ uable information" which she often brings back to the English De¬ partment from conferences, the scholars she has invited to the Eng¬ lish Department for "professional consultation," and the effort she (Gross) has made to complement her (Masembe).
This document was read orally by Masembe on Oct. 11 before Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Mary Pursell, Chairman of the English, Journalism, and Phi¬ losophy Department Dr. Douglas Campbell, Affirmative Action Of¬ ficer Robert Lynch, Associate Pro¬ fessor of Sociology Dr. Roosevelt Green, and Gross.
According to Masembe, she has
found "unfair treatment and racial discrimination" in Gross' ad¬ ministration.
Masembe first found Gross' dis¬ crimination to be evident in the spring of 1992, she states in her document.
It was during this semester that Masembe was assigned by Gross to instruct a class in which she found three white students "impossible to teach."
In her document, Masembe states that these students were "extremely rude" and "had absolutely no re¬ spect" for her.
Masembe informed Campbell of her problems with these three stu¬ dents, and he told her to call Gross, she said.
According to Masembe, who has a policy on rudeness in her syl¬ labus, she felt it was her right to ask these students to leave the class¬ room if they continued to disrupt her teaching.
When she called Gross, the dean told her she could not ask these students to leave her classroom but had to teach them, Masembe said.
After she talked to Gross, three other white students in the same class went to the dean and com¬ plained about the three disruptive students, Masembe said.
According to Masembe, after these white students complained to Gross, the dean was then sym¬ pathetic towards her.
"Only when the white students complained, then it became se¬ rious," Masembe said.
Masembe has also accused Gross of unfairly canceling her black lit¬
erature classes.
In a period of nine months. Gross canceled three of her courses, Ma¬ sembe said.
"No one else has had three courses canceled in a period of eight or nine months," Masembe stat¬ ed.
According to Masembe, she stopped preparing new courses after Gross told her they would not get enough enrollment to be offered, but this semester the dean complained she (Masembe) was not of¬ fering enough new cours¬ es.
"It's like there is a battle going on all the time," Masembe said.
"We need more black courses, not less," Ma¬ sembe said as she dis-
Dr. Harriet Masembe has accused Dr. Janet Gross of discrimination.
cussed "institutional racism," in which black courses are eliminated and the curriculum stays white.
Masembe has accused the Uni¬ versity of "tokenism," where everything remains white, but a black professor is hired so it can no longer be said that the institution is racist.
"I simply become a token to rep¬ resent the black race," Masembe said.
In her document, Masembe states that, if the University is "serious about an integrated curriculum," she would like to propose that some of the Afro-American cours¬
es that have been listed in former University catalogues "but have not been offered for at least ten years" be replaced.
Another Black African, Dr. Au¬ gustine Smith, formerly a physics professor at the University who left the University this past Sept., said, in a telephone interview with this reporter on October 28, that he also found incidents in which Gross "acted in a discriminatory manner" while he was here.
"She just tolerates you," Smith,who now lives in Georgia,
{see Dean page 2)
Lock Haven may gain bus service
by Lori Pacicer
Eagle Eye News Reporter
The city of Lock Haven may soon be the proud owner ofa mass transit system. Lock Haven City Manager Paul Cornell is currently leading the campaign to bring buses to Lock Haven but stressed that the project is still in the very early stages.
At a press conference held at the University last Friday, Cornell said he is looking to PENNDOT to help fund a ridership study to determine what the response to a bus service would be.
Cornell cited the "inadequate ability of students to get down¬ town" as a major reason for his in¬ terest in a public transportation
system. "This could be a big ec¬ onomic part of Clinton County, the city community and the university," he added, highlighting the econom¬ ic benefits a mobile student body could bring to downtown merchants and other area businesses. In addi¬ tion to serving the downtown area, the bus system may also include MacElhatten, Mill Hall and the Bald Eagle Outlets.
If the project is to move ahead, funding would hopefully be pro¬ vided by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, a federal body, or possibly the Rural Development Council, said Cor¬ nell.
The press conference was held following a private meeting be¬ tween Student Cooperative Council
(SCC) President Dave Keenan and his staff, Cornell, and City Code Enforcement Officer David Romig to discuss the new re-zoning or¬ dinance which was passed at Mon¬ day's City Council meeting.
Most of the meeting was spent clarifying the new zoning or¬ dinance. Romig stressed that the ordinance will prohibit any new boarding houses from being es¬ tablished in medium-high res¬ idence districts — this includes the low side of N. Fairview St. and the high side past the old silk mill. Water St., Main St, and Church St. after University Village — and would not affect any legal boarding houses currently in existence.
Romig explained that a boarding house is a unit where more than
four unrelated people reside. A unit does not necessarily mean a house. For example, if you live in a house that has been divided into four sep¬ arate apartments, each with its own bathroom and kitchen facilities, then each apartment is considered a unit, and not the entire house. You could then have up to four un¬ related people in each apartment or 16 people in the entire house. If one apartment had 5 people living there, then that unit would be con¬ sidered a boarding house; each unit is considered individually.
Romig added that the entire zon¬ ing code is soon to be restructured; the changes with boarding houses may or may not be permanent and new changes may be on the way.

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Lock Haven U
ty's student newspapeiyflff* 21 years.
Good
Luck to
students
registering
Saturday!
Volume 46, Number 9
Friday, November 5,1993
12 pages
Dean accused of discrimination
The
ten
second
Eagle Eye
news
A President's open meeting will be held on November 16 at 1 p.m. in the Sloan Fine Arts Building.
Correction in workshop date
Maria Sweet's "Test- Taking" workshop has been moved from Nov. 11 to Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in Robinson 409.
5CC establishes pact
At the SCC meeting last night they discussed the new copier policy and es¬ tablished a pact with a school in Scotland (see story page 2).
features
Plays capture spirit of Halloween
In the spirit of Hal loween, the Countdown Theatre set the stage for two one-act plays. Eulogy and Dracula (see story page 6).
Stutlents explore directing talents
Student directors use their, time and talent to en¬ tertain the University and community (see story page 5).
index
Editoriai.^..^..p. 8 Features^».....pp. 5-7 Ciassificd»tM..p. 4 Sports.......t..t..pp. 9-12
by Jennifer Baer
Eagle Eye News Editor_
A University professor has ac¬ cused the dean of the college of arts and sciences of discrimination in her treatment of Black African pro¬ fessors.
In a document written by Dr. Harriet Masembe, a Black African associate professor in the English, Journalism, and Philosophy De¬ partment, Dr. Janet Gross is accused by the professor of "favoritism, ra¬ cism, and inconsistency."
When contacted by this reporter on Oct. 19 and again on Thursday, Gross did not wish to comment on Masembe's accusations against her.
In spite of these allegations, in her document, Masembe also points out that she has appreciated Gross for the following reasons: the "val¬ uable information" which she often brings back to the English De¬ partment from conferences, the scholars she has invited to the Eng¬ lish Department for "professional consultation," and the effort she (Gross) has made to complement her (Masembe).
This document was read orally by Masembe on Oct. 11 before Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Mary Pursell, Chairman of the English, Journalism, and Phi¬ losophy Department Dr. Douglas Campbell, Affirmative Action Of¬ ficer Robert Lynch, Associate Pro¬ fessor of Sociology Dr. Roosevelt Green, and Gross.
According to Masembe, she has
found "unfair treatment and racial discrimination" in Gross' ad¬ ministration.
Masembe first found Gross' dis¬ crimination to be evident in the spring of 1992, she states in her document.
It was during this semester that Masembe was assigned by Gross to instruct a class in which she found three white students "impossible to teach."
In her document, Masembe states that these students were "extremely rude" and "had absolutely no re¬ spect" for her.
Masembe informed Campbell of her problems with these three stu¬ dents, and he told her to call Gross, she said.
According to Masembe, who has a policy on rudeness in her syl¬ labus, she felt it was her right to ask these students to leave the class¬ room if they continued to disrupt her teaching.
When she called Gross, the dean told her she could not ask these students to leave her classroom but had to teach them, Masembe said.
After she talked to Gross, three other white students in the same class went to the dean and com¬ plained about the three disruptive students, Masembe said.
According to Masembe, after these white students complained to Gross, the dean was then sym¬ pathetic towards her.
"Only when the white students complained, then it became se¬ rious," Masembe said.
Masembe has also accused Gross of unfairly canceling her black lit¬
erature classes.
In a period of nine months. Gross canceled three of her courses, Ma¬ sembe said.
"No one else has had three courses canceled in a period of eight or nine months," Masembe stat¬ ed.
According to Masembe, she stopped preparing new courses after Gross told her they would not get enough enrollment to be offered, but this semester the dean complained she (Masembe) was not of¬ fering enough new cours¬ es.
"It's like there is a battle going on all the time," Masembe said.
"We need more black courses, not less," Ma¬ sembe said as she dis-
Dr. Harriet Masembe has accused Dr. Janet Gross of discrimination.
cussed "institutional racism," in which black courses are eliminated and the curriculum stays white.
Masembe has accused the Uni¬ versity of "tokenism," where everything remains white, but a black professor is hired so it can no longer be said that the institution is racist.
"I simply become a token to rep¬ resent the black race," Masembe said.
In her document, Masembe states that, if the University is "serious about an integrated curriculum," she would like to propose that some of the Afro-American cours¬
es that have been listed in former University catalogues "but have not been offered for at least ten years" be replaced.
Another Black African, Dr. Au¬ gustine Smith, formerly a physics professor at the University who left the University this past Sept., said, in a telephone interview with this reporter on October 28, that he also found incidents in which Gross "acted in a discriminatory manner" while he was here.
"She just tolerates you," Smith,who now lives in Georgia,
{see Dean page 2)
Lock Haven may gain bus service
by Lori Pacicer
Eagle Eye News Reporter
The city of Lock Haven may soon be the proud owner ofa mass transit system. Lock Haven City Manager Paul Cornell is currently leading the campaign to bring buses to Lock Haven but stressed that the project is still in the very early stages.
At a press conference held at the University last Friday, Cornell said he is looking to PENNDOT to help fund a ridership study to determine what the response to a bus service would be.
Cornell cited the "inadequate ability of students to get down¬ town" as a major reason for his in¬ terest in a public transportation
system. "This could be a big ec¬ onomic part of Clinton County, the city community and the university," he added, highlighting the econom¬ ic benefits a mobile student body could bring to downtown merchants and other area businesses. In addi¬ tion to serving the downtown area, the bus system may also include MacElhatten, Mill Hall and the Bald Eagle Outlets.
If the project is to move ahead, funding would hopefully be pro¬ vided by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, a federal body, or possibly the Rural Development Council, said Cor¬ nell.
The press conference was held following a private meeting be¬ tween Student Cooperative Council
(SCC) President Dave Keenan and his staff, Cornell, and City Code Enforcement Officer David Romig to discuss the new re-zoning or¬ dinance which was passed at Mon¬ day's City Council meeting.
Most of the meeting was spent clarifying the new zoning or¬ dinance. Romig stressed that the ordinance will prohibit any new boarding houses from being es¬ tablished in medium-high res¬ idence districts — this includes the low side of N. Fairview St. and the high side past the old silk mill. Water St., Main St, and Church St. after University Village — and would not affect any legal boarding houses currently in existence.
Romig explained that a boarding house is a unit where more than
four unrelated people reside. A unit does not necessarily mean a house. For example, if you live in a house that has been divided into four sep¬ arate apartments, each with its own bathroom and kitchen facilities, then each apartment is considered a unit, and not the entire house. You could then have up to four un¬ related people in each apartment or 16 people in the entire house. If one apartment had 5 people living there, then that unit would be con¬ sidered a boarding house; each unit is considered individually.
Romig added that the entire zon¬ ing code is soon to be restructured; the changes with boarding houses may or may not be permanent and new changes may be on the way.